I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 400 I want you to be a farming nation

Jupiter did not flee without a fight, he fled after being defeated.

Jupiter did not fight to the end, because as long as Jupiter is still alive, he has hope to rise again.

Just as Jupiter fled the battlefield, Roy also killed the soldiers who stood in front of him and came to Aurora.

Seeing that half of the soldiers protecting her were killed by Roy, Aurora stared at Roy with eyes full of hatred and anger and said.

"You are such a demon. I finally understand why brother Amrius lost to you, because you are indeed stronger and more cruel than brother Amrius."

Hearing Aurora's accusation, Roy immediately shook his head and said.

"It's not me who is cruel, but you who started this war. If you don't resist and lead all the Etruscans to surrender to me, no one will be sacrificed today."

After speaking, Roy came to Aurora's war horse.

Just when Roy reached out to grab Aurora, Aurora swung her bronze spear and stabbed Roy.

Roy turned away from the blade of the spear, then grabbed the shaft of the spear with his left hand.

When Roy wanted to take away Aurora's spear, Aurora not only did not let go, but instead held the spear tightly with both hands.

Roy's left hand pulled hard, and Aurora immediately fell from the horse's back to the ground involuntarily.

Then before Aurora stood up, Roy pressed the sharp iron spear blade against Aurora's beautiful neck and threatened.

"If you don't want to die, order the Etruscans to surrender."

Facing the threat of death, Aurora stood up without fear, looked at Roy with contemptuous eyes and sneered.

"If you want to kill, kill it. Do you think I'm afraid of death?"

When Roy's soldiers who killed Aurora approached her, Aurora didn't turn around and run away in fright—Aurora has proved that she is not afraid of death.

"I have always felt that death is not terrible!"

Roy retracted the blade of the iron gun from Aurora's neck, and said with a playful smile on his face.

"Because in this world, there are many more terrible things than death."

While speaking, Roy grabbed Aurora's collar with his left hand.

"Aurora! If you don't surrender, I will tear your clothes and let the soldiers on the battlefield admire the beautiful figure of the Etruscan princess. I believe that your beautiful figure is definitely worthy of the attention of the Athenian soldiers and The charm that Etruscan soldiers stopped fighting."

Seeing that Aurora was so frightened that her face turned pale and her whole body was trembling, Roy walked behind Aurora and hugged her in his arms, and then shouted in a voice that all soldiers could hear.

"Etruscans, I order you to surrender! If you refuse to surrender, I will kill your princess Aurora."

The various ethnic groups of the Etruscans are like a loose sand.

Now they can unite against the Athenians entirely because of the royal princess Aurora who called them.

If Aurora dies, the Etruscans will surely become a mess again.

So hearing Roy's words, the leaders of the Etruscans asked their soldiers to stop fighting.

Seeing this scene, Aurora couldn't help shouting.

"Leave me alone—"

"You really think I won't tear your clothes?"

Roy said coldly.

"If this war continues, I will count the deaths of soldiers on both sides on you. If you dare to speak nonsense, I will let you taste the humiliation and torture that is worse than death."

Aurora trembled again with fright.

She is not afraid of death.

But as an unmarried girl, Aurora didn't want to suffer unimaginable humiliation and torture.

After the Athenian soldiers and the Etruscan soldiers stopped fighting, the leaders of the Etruscans saw that Aurora was captured by Roy, and they ran over with their soldiers to surround Roy.

"Quickly let go of the princess!"

"As long as you let go of Princess Aurora, we will let you leave alive."

"If you hurt the princess, we will kill you."

"Shut me all up!"

Roy yelled angrily, and said while holding Aurora's neck with his left hand.

"Whoever of you yells and twitters again, I will make him the one who killed Aurora."

The leaders of the Etruscans fell silent for a moment, Roy continued.

"Etruscans, why do you have to start this stupid war with me? We Athenians have been in the Apennine Peninsula for so long, you should have heard about the policy of the Athenian Empire. We will not deprive you of your lives and Property, I just want you to become a farming nation that cultivates the land, so that you can grow your own food to support yourself.”

Seeing that the leaders were all speechless, Aurora said immediately.

"Why should we become a farming people? Although the food we get from grazing cattle and sheep cannot support ourselves, we can conquer the ethnic group in the southern Po River Plain and let them pay us tribute food. We don't need to farm at all."

The Etruscans have always conquered the southern groups, and the biggest purpose is food.

After listening to Aurora's rebuttal, Roy joked.

"The Po River Plain you occupy is the most fertile land in the Apennine Peninsula! If you grow food on the Po River Plain, you still need to conquer the southern ethnic groups and let them pay tribute food? As long as the Po River Plain becomes a grain-producing area, your food There will be enough to sell to other ethnic groups. Now the ethnic groups in the south of the Po River Plain have become the territory of the Athenian Empire, and the southern ethnic groups will no longer pay tribute to you. If you don’t grow your own food, do you want to starve yourself to death? ?"

Roy's words immediately made Aurora realize the real crisis.

If the Etruscans cannot drive out the Athenians and reconquer the peoples in the south of the Po plain—

Even if the Athenians ended their war with the Etruscans, the Etruscans would suffer unimaginable famines due to food problems.

Seeing Aurora frowning and thinking, Roy continued.

"As long as the Etruscans are willing to become a farming nation, I will guarantee to provide you with food. If you insist on being a nomadic people, then I can only drive you out of the Apennine Peninsula."

said an Etruscan chief.

"We can become a farming nation, but we have no reason to be ruled by you outsiders."

"You said I was an outsider—"

Roy put his left hand on Aurora's waist, hugged Aurora in his arms and said.

"Now that King Amlius of Etruria is dead, and I marry Princess Aurora to inherit the throne, then I am not an outsider, but the new King of Etruria, who of you still opposes my order ?”

said another Etruscan chief.

"Although Amrius is young, he has already given birth to a son and a daughter. Princess Aurora is not the first heir to the throne. We let Princess Aurora lead us only because Princess Aurora is both Si's sister, and the older royal family again."

"I killed Amrius' son, daughter and wife. Aurora is the first heir to the throne. Will you still object to me marrying Aurora to inherit the throne?"

After the leaders were all silent, Aurora said angrily, gnashing her teeth.

"How could I marry you, the enemy who killed my brother and made us the Etruscans lose their supremacy? If you, the Athenians, did not show up, we Etruscans will always be the overlord of the Apennine Peninsula."

In the history of another world, the Etruscan hegemony can be maintained for at least 1000 years later.

It was not until the rise of the Latin city of Rome that the hegemony of the Etruscans came to an end.

(End of this chapter)